Stanford’s Olympus System

Stanford University’s Olympus synthesis system consists of three major components: high-level synthesis (Hercules, Hebe, and Vulcan), logic synthesis (Mercury), and module binding (Ceres). Hercules parses the behavioral description to produce the internal representation, and performs transformations; Hebe performs data path synthesis, scheduling, and design iteration. As an alternative, Vulcan performs simultaneous partitioning and control step scheduling. The system also supports an algorithmic level simulator (Ariadne) and a logic level simulator (Mercury.